Determinants of the spatial difusion of Bollywood cinema

• Authors: Małgorzata Parda

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to indicate which determinants had the major impact on the spatial difusion of the Bollywood cinema in two aspects: the first appearance of this cinema in diferent countries and the number of films distributed there. The distance between the country and Mumbai and the size of the diaspora were taken as key determinants. The concept of Hägerstrand was adopted as the spatial difusion model. The procedure involved gathering data for 5,832 Hindi movies produced in Mumbai distributed in cinemas in 76 countries from 1970 to 2010. The hypotheses were verified and it was proved that the spatial difusion of the popular hindi cinema was influenced by a number of social, cultural and political determinants, of which the size of the Indian diaspora was the most important. The paper can be a reference to the discussion about diaspora identity and the intersection of cultures.

Keywords

EN

popular hindi cinema; spatial difusion; spatial difusion determinants; Bollywood; Bollywood cinema

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 33-38

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Parda

• Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0030

Biblioteka Nauki

2137046